Showing posts with label Amateur. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amateur. Show all posts
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Monday, January 21, 2013
What Happens When...
The experiment: First, soak an ordinary tennis ball in gasoline (what the British call “petrol”). Then set the tennis ball on fire and whack it with a tennis racket. What happens?
Not what I expected:
Not what I expected:
Friday, January 18, 2013
Operation Stratosphere...
I'd have a lot of fun with a project like this: send cameras aloft (via balloon) into the stratosphere, taking 360° still and video images all the way up and down. Bonus: image the balloon bursting! One example result: you can explore the image below in a 360° viewer.
Monday, October 10, 2011
121,000 Feet...
Awesome video of an amateur rocket launch. The payload reached 121,000 feet in altitude, right at the very edge of outer space...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
A Climate Skeptic Defends Amateur Science...
Interesting post. It contains my quote of the day:
Making a distinction between professional and amateur in science is artificial: what matters is the 'what' of science not the 'who'.
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